That showed how much Charles Oppermann knows about his previous company's product. Looks like he was blindly defending the bloated product.

The little demon that sits between you and the hard drive. She decides where exactly your bytes go.

Use analytic geometry this is easy to solve. A line can be defined by two points. You want another line that passes through a point and form a right angle with the first line. After you find the second line use GDI functions MoveTo() and LineTo() to draw the second line.

use %p

szTimeDisplay = tm.Format(_T("%I:%M:%S %p"))

use this instead:

szTimeDisplay = tm.Format(_T("%I:%M:%S"))